Immigrants await legalization of enhanced regime US President George W. Bush took up the issue of immigration. Addressing his fellow Americans Monday evening, he laid out his vision of the role of illegal immigrants in America today. They number from 11 to 14 million people, three quarters of them are from Latin America. Illegal immigrants mostly enter the United States through the border with Mexico and settle in California, Texas and Florida.

In Moscow there is a non-profit organization “Family Planning and Sex Education for Youth and Adolescents”. I met with the leading specialist of the center, obstetrician-gynecologist and dermatovenerologist, member of the European Society for Sexual Medicine, member of the Russian Association of Gynecologists-Endocrinologists Boris LORDKIPANIDZE. —You give lectures to teenagers. What interests them most? -- One of the frequently asked questions is when can you start having sex.

Marathon Oil sold Russian oil and gas assets The American company Marathon Oil, which operates around the world, has decided to part with its Russian assets. Yesterday it announced that it was selling all nine fields it owned in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug to LUKOIL. By coincidence, Marathon Oil decided to leave the Russian oil industry, which is attracting close interest from the world’s largest oil companies, after it was inspected by Rosprirodnadzor and Rostechnadzor.

The Russian team will play against the Czech Republic in the quarterfinals The second group stage of the World Hockey Championship has ended. The Russian national team, which lost only one point in six matches, faced its eternal opponent, the current champion Czech Republic, in the quarterfinals, which yesterday lost to the Americans - 1:3. Whether our team can continue to fight for medals will be known on Thursday, May 18th.

The rules for spending the investment fund have been determined The investment fund has not yet begun its work; even the regulatory framework for its existence was finally agreed upon by the “core” departments - the Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Finance - only yesterday. However, the government is already convinced of its beneficial effect on economic growth. Moreover, officials are already ready to increase government injections in this way.

Arsenal and Barcelona on the eve of the Champions League final The main match of the Champions League will take place on Wednesday at the Stade de France in Paris. The Spanish “Barcelona” and the English “Arsenal” will meet in the final. And although both clubs are recognized authorities in European football, they have only one Champions Cup between them.

They are again trying to make one out of two Duma factions with the same name The Rodina faction in the Duma, which split into two with scandal a year ago, may be on the verge of new transformations. Deputies from both factions - Rodina (People's Patriotic Union) and Rodina (People's Will - SEPR) - are dissatisfied with the current situation and believe that it is necessary to unite back. And at the same time, resolve the issue of joint actions in the upcoming parliamentary elections of 2007.

Watch from May 18 on Moscow screens “The Da Vinci Code” (USA-France, 2006, Ron Howard). The opening film of the current Cannes Film Festival is simultaneously released almost all over the world. An imminent adaptation of Dan Brown's best-selling novel, a strange murder in the Louvre in Paris unwinds the spring of a secret conspiracy involving the highest hierarchs of the Catholic Church, members of secret societies, specialists in secret symbols and Grail hunters.

The regions took Sergei Mironov at his word Today, deputies of the State Duma of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug must decide whether or not to recall their representative in the Federation Council. The speaker of the upper house, Sergei Mironov, accused Boris Gutin, the deputy chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Northern Affairs and Small Peoples, who represents Yamal in the Senate, of poor performance. Mr.

The Tretyakov Gallery introduced the program of its holiday On May 22 (10th - old style), 1856, merchant Pavel Tretyakov bought a painting by artist V.G. Khudyakov “Skirmish with Finnish smugglers.” This was the first painting of the collection. The date May 22 is the founding day of the Tretyakov Gallery. On the eve of the 150th anniversary, the gallery management presented a program of festive events. The events dedicated to old art are most convincing.

Russia continues its painful path to the World Trade Organization Yesterday, Minister of Economic Development and Trade German Gref signed a protocol on the completion of negotiations on accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) with Colombia. Thus, Russia now lacks the signatures of only three countries - the USA, Australia and Moldova - to complete the negotiations. At the same time, negotiations with Australia are almost completed, and the protocol can be signed in the near future.

The ministers discussed the problems of physical education for schoolchildren The head of Rossport, Vyacheslav Fetisov, and the Minister of Education and Science, Andrei Fursenko, discussed for the first time the problems of modernizing the physical education of schoolchildren.

In the near future, Russia and China will begin work on marking the border on the ground in the areas of Bolshoi Island in the upper reaches of the Argun in the Chita region and the Tarabarov and Bolshoi Ussuriysky islands at the confluence of the Amur and Ussuri near Khabarovsk. After 40 years of negotiations, the problem was resolved in October 2004, when Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Hu Jintao signed an Additional Agreement on the Russian-Chinese state border on its eastern part.

RAO UES ensured business development for former top managers RAO UES of Russia admitted that it supports the business of its former top managers Leonid Melamed and Dmitry Zhurba (the so-called “Novosibirsk clan”), who, after leaving the energy holding, began to develop their own investment company Alemar. Mr. Melamed owns 78% of its shares, and Mr. Jourba more than 17%.

The radio beacons of the crashed airliner's recorders may soon fail Yesterday, the sea tug "Navigator" set off from the Sochi port to the place where on the night of May 3 the A320 plane, flying on the Yerevan-Sochi route, fell into the Black Sea and sank. A set of equipment is installed on the deck of the tug that allows you to control the RT-1000 deep-sea robotic manipulator. This robot must lift two flight recorders of the airliner to the surface.